[rstephenson2]

Has anyone verified this (the Mail.app) part themselves, or is the blog post just going off of Apple's press release? The press release:

> Link Tracking Protection in Messages, Mail, and Safari Private Browsing > "Some websites add extra information to their URLs in order to track users across other websites. Now this information will be removed from the links users share in Messages and Mail, and the links will still work as expected. This information will also be removed from links in Safari Private Browsing."

Note that it says "links _users_ share". That part seems unnecessary if it's _all_ links in emails. I think it points to this feature being more about protecting a user from inadvertently forwarding their email to someone else, while not realizing it has personal identifiers in the links? Preventing others from unsubscribing them, or even auto-logging-in etc.

Though, I personally haven't seen iOS17 remove any query params from emails at all, maybe will have to wait for the next beta to find out.